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... > social science subjects > sociology > sociology of education > education in society and culture > multiculturalism and special populations > African American education > key people in African American education > Johnnetta Cole
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Johnnetta Cole  

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  • Activist, educator, and humanitarian Johnnetta Betsch Cole is best known for her leadership role as president of the only two historically Black women's colleges in the United States: Spelman College, founded in 1881, and Bennett College, founded in 1873 (it became a women's college in 1926). At Spelman, she was the seventh president and first African American women to lead the institution. [Source: Encyclopedia of African American Education; Cole, Johnnetta]

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